[CRNMC] an idea to consider for a 2016 campaign

[Steve Scalmanini]

The attached article reminded me of an issue that we...well, some of us...could 
work on, although in a sector of the economy that is notoriously complicated in 
the County.  Nonetheless, if we want to keep big tobacco out of the County when 
marijuana is eventually regulated, then we probably have until the November, 
2016, election to pass an initiative to do so.

There will probably be a state-wide initiative to legalize ('regulate and tax' 
is the preferable term) marijuana in either the California Primary (June 7) or 
General Election (November 8) of 2016.  Whichever date it is, that might be the 
best time to also have on the Mendocino County ballot an initiative to protect 
part of the local economy by banning corporate growing of marijuana in the County.

Is anyone else interested in such a campaign?

Steve

PS:  Full disclosure:  I don't have a dog in this fight, i.e. marijuana.  Don't 
grow; don't smoke; don't eat.  But if the "Mendo" brand is ever going to be 
reserved for the benefit of small-scale growers like we already have, and not 
become just another appellation for corporate advertising, such an initiative to 
ban corporate growing in the County seems like a necessity to me.  I _do_ care 
about the local economy.

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